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> How can the human mind do this?

I think the most interesting point about this is that the human mind doesn't know how the human mind does it.

I wonder what kind of software they compared to Constable Collins. Did that software use designed features or learned features? What sort of data set was it trained on?

It wouldn't surprise me if current state of the art software that learns features from real CCTV footage fared a lot better than what they were using in 2011.